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Hobbs and Shaw break out of prison in The Fate of the Furious
Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw are The Fate of the Furious. They started out as foes, locked under confusing circumstances in the same prison together (in the same cell block, just across from each other), but after Kurt Russell’s shady government agent Mr. Nobody unlocked their cells, they came closer to building their love/hate relationship.
The unlocked cells incited a prison riot in which we finally got to see Hobbs and Shaw square off against one another. Hobbs even bicep-curls a concrete bench at one point.
Jumping a car from one skyscraper to another in Furious 7
Midway through Furious 7, Brian and Dom head to Abu Dhabi to track down the “God’s Eye” flash drive (there’s always a random MacGuffin to string together the action sequences in these movies) and end up driving a car from one building into another.
The car featured in this scene is a Lykan HyperSport. Its original production line was limited to just seven units and, with a $3.4 million price-tag, it was the third most expensive car in the world when it was first released. So, if you’re going to jump a car between buildings in the Abu Dhabi skyline, that’s a pretty good choice.
The opening train robbery in Fast Five
In the opening of Fast & Furious movie of them all with a thrilling train robbery. Dom and Brian close in on a speeding train and hop on board from their moving car to steal some more cars, which have been seized by the DEA.
They end up careening off the edge of a cliff and crashing down into some water, where they get captured. So, the heist isn’t particularly successful, but that’s not what it’s all about. It’s about the excitement of the action, and this one’s exciting to a tee.
“They got a tank!” in Fast & Furious 6
This line is uttered by Tej, played hilarious by Ludacris in the a working tank that they’re plowing through the road with.
Tej says, “Uh, guys, we gotta come up with another plan – they got a tank!” They think they’ve got Shaw on his knees when they stretch out a cable in front of his vehicles to destroy them, but all that does is let the tank out.
Driving a Camaro onto a yacht in 2 Fast 2 Furious
Vin Diesel didn’t return for 2 Fast 2 Furious, the second movie in the franchise, and in fact, he wouldn’t return to a starring role until the fourth movie. But that’s not to say that the movie is without its merits.
Paul Walker reprised his role as Brian, for starters, and Tyrese Gibson plays his iconic character, Roman, in the sequel, too. Plus, it has some great action sequences, with the greatest easily being the scene in which Brian and Roman jump a Camaro from a harbor onto the back of a yacht. That’s one solution for missing a boat.
Remotely controlled cars tear up Manhattan in The Fate of the Furious
the bad guy in Live Free or Die Hard? We got a glimpse of the modern-day action movie villain, as a cyberterrorist named Thomas Gabriel hacked America and used it to screw with John McClane, like turning off all the lights in the tunnel he was in.
With The Fate of the Furious, we got an even crazier version of that villain. She somehow found a way to remotely control every single car on the streets of Manhattan and used them to swirl around Toretto’s crew (minus Toretto, who she’d turned against them) and create vehicular chaos.
Dragging a vault through the streets of Rio in Fast Five
Fast Five was a heist movie.
But it wasn’t the kind of heist movie where a team works meticulously to sneak into a vault and take something valuable without the owners even knowing. It was the kind of heist movie where a team hooks the entire vault to their cars, rips it out of the building, and drags it through the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
The longest airport runway of all time in Fast & Furious 6
The climactic sequence in Gal Gadot’s character Gisele’s shocking and untimely death.
The scene revolves around what goes on in and around a plane as it heads down the runway at great speed before taking off and it’s 13 minutes long. Toretto and his crew are chasing the plane in search of Mia, who has been taken by Owen Shaw, and a MacGuffin called “the component,” which he also has.
Skydiving with cars in Furious 7
There was an added poignancy to his brothers stepped in to finish them. Walker’s character Brian is central to this insane action sequence, which sees Dom Toretto’s crew parachuting from a cargo plane – in their cars.
They somehow manage to land on their wheels on the road (well, most of them). The whole thing seems wildly unnecessary, since they could just drive up to their target from the beginning, but it’s big, goofy, cinematic fun, and that’s what we come to these movies to see.
Hobbs redirects a torpedo with his bare hands in The Fate of the Furious
As the eighth and most recent installment of the a responsibility to go bigger and louder than ever before with its action sequences. It’s fair to say that it succeeded irably, with a scene in which the characters are chased across a huge patch of ice in their cars as a submarine tears through the ice from the water beneath it.
The sub fires a torpedo at them and Hobbs hangs out the side of his car and redirects it towards one of the bad guys’ jeeps with his bare hands. It’s pretty awesome.
